2021 Yarra Yering Carrodus Pinot Noir

Winery of the Year 2024 - Huon Hooke’s The Real Review. 

97 points - Philip Rich, James Halliday’s Wine Companion.
Made from a small parcel planted in 1969. Whole berries with some stalk return, 35% new wood. A light, bright crimson. Perfumed and savoury with red and dark fruits together with some woodsy, stalk-influenced notes, too. There's an old-vine creaminess on the very well-balanced palate and ripe, persistent and velvety tannins rounding out a wine that can be confidently cellared for at least 10 years. 75 dozen made.

Rank #3 from 95 Yarra Valley Pinot Noirs &
97 points - Huon Hooke, The Real Review
Medium-light purple-red colour, bright and youthful, the bouquet likewise fresh and bright red-cherry, raspberry aromas, clean and fruit-driven. Intense, penetrating, finely-tuned and precise palate with tightly focused middle-palate flavour, great purity of cherry fruit flavour, a sweet-fruit core, and there's a seemingly impossible combination of refinement and plushness. Only medium bodied but concentrated and piercing. A pristine young pinot with a mighty future.